New Village Arts in Carlsbad Village is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit theater company founded in April 2001 by graduates of New York's Actors Studio Drama School, staging its first production that November in a converted chicken coop at Magee Park. The company's full-season calendar of plays and musicals draws more than 30,000 patrons per year to its 100-seat house on State Street, and the intimate staging format shares the Village's cultural-district energy with the fine-art installations at Live Wedding Art nearby. California Arts Council grants totaling $56,000 in 2022-2023 funded the Dea Hurston Fellowship for underrepresented students and the Sahm Family Foundation Arts Education Center expansion. Education and outreach programs include Teatro Pueblo Nuevo for bilingual audiences, Mainstage Players for teens and adults with neurodiversity, and talkback discussions that extend each production's run, and pre-show dining in the Village pulls from the artisan-bread corridor that includes Prager Brothers Artisan Breads on State Street. The company holds rights to productions not yet staged outside London and New York, including its 2023 U.S. premiere of the 2019 Tony Award-winning Best Play “The Ferryman” by Jez Butterworth.